Hyottoko, a Shio Ramen Shop in Ginza
Hyottoko, in the basement of the Ginza Kotsu Kaikan building, serves some of the best shio ramen in Tokyo. I happened to have some shopping to do in Ginza, and with an awkward gap in my schedule I stopped in f…
Hyottoko, in the basement of the Ginza Kotsu Kaikan building, serves some of the best shio ramen in Tokyo. I happened to have some shopping to do in Ginza, and with an awkward gap in my schedule I stopped in f…
I had plans for a late breakfast-slash-lunch in Shinjuku. For a get-together, the department store restaurant floors or a hotel restaurant would have been fine too, but the more casual Suminoe seemed like the …
Tsukiji Sushi Sen is a proper sushi chain with its main shop in Tsukiji. Its rival would be Sushi Zanmai. It is not a very expensive place, but the value for money is nothing special either, and the food is no…
I had a lunch appointment in Hamamatsucho, so I got a meal in while I was there. The lunch-service onigiri Living in Japan, you end up eating a lot of carbs. Korea has plenty too, but Japan seems to have ev…
My schedule was so packed this time that I hadn’t planned on going to Échiré at all, but a certain someone asked me to, so off I went. I got there a bit early. Even on a weekday the line was long. As …
I’d booked a place to stay in Shinjuku and went out for dinner, but that neighborhood doesn’t really have that many places to eat. So I went into a chain restaurant with reasonable prices and reaso…
There are a few places I absolutely have to visit whenever I’m in Tokyo, and tri-R Shibatani is one of them. It’s a place I just love. Canelé The best canelé I’ve ever had was as good as e…
At the end of May I had to make a sudden trip to Tokyo. The schedule was so packed that I barely got to eat properly. It was a bit of a shame, but I’ll post the few good places I managed to drop by along…
One weekday evening I had to go to the Lotte Department Store in Myeongdong, and while I was wondering where nearby to have dinner, a place called Jinju Hoegwan caught my eye, so I gave it a try. The weather h…
An açaí bowl specialist has opened on trendy Garosu-gil in Sinsa-dong. I tried açaí bowls in Hawaii last year and was won over by the fresh taste that seems healthy (it isn’t really), and now there’…
One weekend I was looking for somewhere to eat along Line 3 and ended up at Chebu-dong Sujebi and Boribap. Maybe it’s the upscale-home-cooking concept, but the place seemed hugely popular with the locals…
In May, the Mugyo-dong branch of Cheung Kee Noodle House launched Cantonese dishes and ran a promotion to celebrate: 20% off the entire new seafood-restaurant menu. There was no way I was letting that chance s…